Friday 22 July 2011

Un Poison Violent (Love Like Poison)

Katell Quillevere - 2010
Well, I can't pretend I found this very interesting. The camera has a little track for the first shot but then settles into establishing two-shots, then SRS and SRS and SRS and shot and reverse over and over. Of course there are a few lightly expressive moves, but little is really conveyed.
The set design is quite deliberately comletely disgusting, vile colours in the boring little town. One interesting this is the way the light is caught a lot of the time into shadows under our heroines' eyes; she seems to be front lit a lot.
The story isn't bad but nothing too earth-shaking; largely sexual coming-of-age / awakening, in the Catholic environement, with the grandpere working as a kind of propadeutic. All restrained, nicely acted, and nothing I could see, on this watch, to get too excited about.

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